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1.07.2005

The New York Times has a good article on Wataru Misaka, the first Japanese American to play professional basketball in the United States. In 1947, the 5-foot-7 guard played in three games for the Knicks in the Basketball Association of America (which would later become the NBA in 1949a year before the league admitted its first black player). He's a pioneer: Size 7 Sneakers Are Still Hard to Fill